specter是什么意思？

specter

英['spektə] 美[ˈspɛktɚ]

• n. 鬼怪，幽灵，缠绕心头的恐惧，凶兆；

复数：specters;

例句

• The arrival of warm weather raises the specter of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage. 天气转暖使人们担心垃圾腐烂会引起疾病传播和鼠群猖獗。
• The terrible specter of civil war hung over the country once again. 内战的可怕阴影再一次笼罩这个国家。
• The specter of unemployment haunted the land. 失业的恐怖笼罩全国.
• The specter of war loomed ahead. 战争的阴影逼近了.
• The news of more cuts has raised the specter of redundancies once again. 关于进一步裁减的消息让人们担心会再次裁员.

英汉词典释义

• n.
  缠绕心头的恐惧,凶兆
  The news of more cuts has raised the specter of redundancies once again. 关于进一步裁减的消息让人们担心会再次裁员。 The terrible specter of civil war hung over the country once again. 内战的可怕阴影再一次笼罩这个国家。 Wall Street’s collapse raised specters of the 1987 stock market crash. 华尔街股市暴跌引发了1987 年股市崩溃时的那种恐慌。 The arrival of warm weather raises the specter of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage. 天气转暖使人们担心垃圾腐烂会引起疾病传播和鼠群猖獗。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a mental representation of some haunting experience;
  "he looked like he had seen a ghost""it aroused specters from his past"
  2. a ghostly appearing figure;
  "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"